So tomorrow is 10 days

[Scout26]

Doing good !!!!  You got this....

[Fly320s]

You can celebrate with a cigar!

[grampster]

Soon, you won't even think about it.

[mellestad]

Nice job! We're taking care of my mother in law and she smokes--it seems like such a hassle. Smoke before you leave, smoke when you arrive, leave to go outside and smoke. Make trips into town for tobacco. And she's poor, too. Geeze.

[T.O.M.]

In a meeting today, got seated by a smoker. She reeked.  Find that I'm noticing the smell more.  Even on some of the papers people bring to court. More reason to keep going.  (Fixed an autocorrect boo-boo.)

[TechMan]

In a meeting today, got seated by a smoker. She seemed.  Find that I'm noticing the smell more.  Even on some of the papers people bring to court. More reason to keep going. 

When SWMBO moved in, her dad was a smoker and I swear for about 6 months I nearly threw up from her clothes in the closet and the smoke smell that was off gassing from them.

[230RN]

"Find that I'm noticing the smell more.  Even on some of the papers people bring to court."

I still catch a whiff of it in my apartment when I come in from the fresh air.  I don't know how many quintillions of surface square inches there are, considering all the fibrous things like carpet threads and the like, but I've been smoking in here for about 13 years.  I now have beige walls.

Yeah,yeah, I vacuumed the crap out of the place, blasted fresh air through the place on the warm days since September, when I quit.  Nineteen inch fan blowing in on one side, nineteen incher blowing out on the other.

Still catch the smell, coming in from outdoors.  (And I suddently noticed the smoke from one of my neighbors.  I knew he smoked, but I guess my own emissions masked his.)

Oh, and I'm really noticing the $50 or so a week I'm saving.  I make it about $800 m/l since I quit.

Totally unrelated, but good for a grin on your autocorrection.  Saw it somewhere:

"Autocorrect is my worst enema."

Terry

[Andiron]

"Find that I'm noticing the smell more.  Even on some of the papers people bring to court."

I still catch a whiff of it in my apartment when I come in from the fresh air.  I don't know how many quintillions of surface square inches there are, considering all the fibrous things like carpet threads and the like, but I've been smoking in here for about 13 years.  I now have beige walls.

Yeah,yeah, I vacuumed the crap out of the place, blasted fresh air through the place on the warm days since September, when I quit.  Nineteen inch fan blowing in on one side, nineteen incher blowing out on the other.

Still catch the smell, coming in from outdoors.  (And I suddently noticed the smoke from one of my neighbors.  I knew he smoked, but I guess my own emissions masked his.)

Oh, and I'm really noticing the $50 or so a week I'm saving.  I make it about $800 m/l since I quit.

Totally unrelated, but good for a grin on your autocorrection.  Saw it somewhere:

"Autocorrect is my worst enema."

Terry

Ozone generator seems to take the edge off smoke smell,  might be worth a try. 

[KD5NRH]

I now have beige walls.

A friend quit cold turkey during his divorce; he took the wedding photo down after 25 years, saw the difference in the wall color, and has been terrified of cigs ever since.  Light one up near him and he starts sweating from the fear.

[T.O.M.]

Tomorrow is 30 days.  Around here, a pack is just under $7. I was buying 4 packs a week. So, around  $112.  Need to not only not spend on cigs, but stick that money (or at least a good chunk of it) in an envelope for that gun buy.

[K Frame]

Fantastic!

[230RN]

Ozone generator seems to take the edge off smoke smell,  might be worth a try.  

Yeah, I might try running a big job on my laser printer or building a Jacob's ladder.  I think I might have the parts for that.

Funny how I never noticed the ozone off my printer until I quit smoking.

And yeah, I moved a wall clock recently and left a large circle of white on the wall.

Not a bad idea about stuffing a "$moking $aved" envelope with the unspent cash for a personal present.

Good going, Chris !

Terry

[T.O.M.]

So, it's been over a month.  12/28/17 was my last. Been some stressful, nasty court days, but I've stayed the course.  I'm thinking about it less.  I still do, sometimes.  Would never have thought a year ago, I'd be sitting here in 2018, waiting for the Super Bowl, no smoking, no Pepsi or Coke, and happy about it.

[Scout26]

CONGRATS !!!!


And as to the "Thinking about it" thing.  I woke up in the middle of night about a week ago craving a Lucky Strike, which I haven't smoked since college (1983-1987).  Because they were the cheapest cigarettes you could buy back then.

I do recommend carrots and celery to help with the oral fixation so you don't put on extra pounds...

[KD5NRH]

And as to the "Thinking about it" thing.  I woke up in the middle of night about a week ago craving a Lucky Strike, which I haven't smoked since college (1983-1987).  Because they were the cheapest cigarettes you could buy back then.

Back when poor people could afford Spam.  And tortillas, for that matter.  Lucky's are more expensive than Camels around here.

[230RN]

Good job !

(It'll be five months for me, come Wednesday, 7 Feb.) <...A note of encouragement, not braggadocio

(Well, yeah, it is, a little.   )

[T.O.M.]

Good job !

(It'll be five months for me, come Wednesday, 7 Feb.) <...A note of encouragement, not braggadocio

(Well, yeah, it is, a little.   )

Nothing wrong with bragging about it.  And support is appreciated.

[K Frame]

Very excellent.

I have to go to Walmart tomorrow morning.

I've decided that one of the things I'm picking up are nicotine patches. I'm going to make it stick this time (stopping smoking, not the patches).

[T.O.M.]

Very excellent.

I have to go to Walmart tomorrow morning.

I've decided that one of the things I'm picking up are nicotine patches. I'm going to make it stick this time (stopping smoking, not the patches).

I think that was the biggest thing for me.  In the past,  I felt like I should quit, or I ought to quit.  This is the first time I've wanted to quit.  Deciding that I don't want to smoke anymore helped.

[230RN]

Six months today.

How's it going, Chris?

[grampster]

I think that was the biggest thing for me.  In the past,  I felt like I should quit, or I ought to quit.  This is the first time I've wanted to quit.  Deciding that I don't want to smoke anymore helped.

You hit the nail on the head.  I had a friend who talked about doing or not doing stuff, no matter what it was.  He said the key was to decide you want to.  To quote his sagelike words..."You gotta wanna."

[Hawkmoon]

When SWMBO moved in, her dad was a smoker and I swear for about 6 months I nearly threw up from her clothes in the closet and the smoke smell that was off gassing from them.

My mother passed away in 1994. In 1995 I moved into the house and started painting rooms. The room next to the master bedroom had been my bedroom when I was very young, then became my younger sister's room when she was born (parents had the attic converted into a room for me). It was January, and I was working at night, after work. When I started painting sis's old bedroom, I thought my eyes were failing -- I was painting light colors, and I couldn't see anything.

Older house, had a ceiling light fixture in the middle of the room. I finally removed the glass and washed it. OH MY GAWD! The amount of tar that came off probably about killed the septic system. Then I pulled the bulbs and washed them. What a difference. The thing was -- both parents were heavy smokers, but nobody else in the house smoked, so this was tar accumulation from second-hand smoke in a room where nobody smoked. I shudder to think what my mother's lungs must have looked like.

[T.O.M.]

Six months today.

How's it going, Chris?

I'll say it's about a C grade for myself.  High stress at work, some personal issues, and I said f#ck it on a Friday, bought beer and a pack of cigs.  I managed to avoid falling back to the old ways, but I did finish that pack.  Mea culpa.

[BobR]

As the say, "*expletive deleted*it Happens".

Just climb back on the bull and start your ride again.

I can't tell you how many times I got thrown off the bull riding rodeo as a kid, but I just kept getting back on. I eventually made 8 seconds after a few false starts.

The person who is beating you up the most about it will be you. It is what it is. Quitting nicotine is one of the hardest addictions to break so you just start all over and tell yourself it will last longer this time than last and eventually it will last forever.


bob

[230RN]

I'll say it's about a C grade for myself.  High stress at work, some personal issues, and I said f#ck it on a Friday, bought beer and a pack of cigs.  I managed to avoid falling back to the old ways, but I did finish that pack.  Mea culpa.

Drat !

Although it may take three or four tries, don't let that be an excuse to start again.  And I hope things settle down for you.  Put this up as your wallpaper.  Green is a good tranque, path and bridge are good symbols:

        

That picture somehow brings to mind some phrase I heard once about broad sunland uplits... or broad sunlit uplands... something like that.

Terry

Pic credit in properties.